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Surround Buses (Producer Edition Only)
Surround buses are useful for mixing and adding effects to create a surround mix.
As with Audio strips, the Value box in the toolbar displays the send and return
levels in decibels and the send and return balance values on a scale of 100%L to
100%R.
To Patch a Track Through a Bus
1. Open the Console view (View-Console) or the Track view (View-Track).
2. If you want to add effects to the bus, right-click in the FX bin of a bus (if it is
not in use already) and choose an effect from the effects popup menu. (If you
are working in the Track view, you may first need to display the Bus pane by
clicking the Show/Hide Mains and Buses button located at the bottom of
the Track view.)
The name of the effect you have chosen appears in the bus FX bin.
3. Set the effect’s parameters and close it.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for any additional effects you want to use.
5. In a track module that you want to patch through the bus, do the following:
• Drag the Bus Send Level control for the bus to the approximate level you
want.
• Drag the Bus Send pan to the approximate setting you want.
• Click the Bus Enable button for the appropriate bus.
6. Repeat step 5 for all the tracks you want to patch through the bus.
7. In the bus, adjust the Input Gain and Output volume controls to the
approximate level you want.
8. In the bus, drag the Input pan and Output pan controls to the approximate
positions you want.
9. Play your tracks and adjust the Send Level controls, the pan controls, etc.
To Mute or Solo a Bus
Each bus has a Mute button and a Solo button. These controls act like the Mute
and Solo buttons in a track, but they affect all the signal routed through the bus.
1. Open the Track view or the Console view.
2. Click the Mute or Solo button in the bus you want to mute or solo.
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